English Examm
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43 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 amelioration | improvement |
| detriment | injury; damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage |
| folly | lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking |
| ignoramus | ignorant, stupid person; dunce; dolt; dullard; nincompoop |
| impediment | something that hinders or obstructs; hindrance; obstacle |
| indolent | disposed to aboid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic |
| invalid | not binding in law; having no force or effect; void; nugatory |
| noncarcinogenic | not producing, or tending to produce, cancer |
| parsimonious | unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy; miserly; tightfisted |
| raze | destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved |
| retoort | answer; reply sharply or angrily |
| subvert | overturn or overthrow from the foundation; undermine |
| tractability | obedience |
| despicable | worthy of contempt; contemptible |
| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; high-spirited; vivacious |
| exhort | arouse by words; advise strongly; urge |
| finicky | excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular; persnickety |
| indemnify | compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay |
| perusal | reading; study |
| spurn | thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject |
| tepid | moderately warm; lukewarm |
| wane | decrease in power or size; dwindle |
| abhorrent | in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome; repugnant; odious; abominable |
| admonition | gentle warning; friendly reproof |
| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste or smell; delicious; heavenly |
| detonatiion | explosion |
| ephemeral | lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory; short-lived; transient |
| gullible | easily deceived or cheated; credulous |
| immersion | state of being deeply engrossed; absorption |
| lapse | slip, error; accidental mistake; trivial fault///// interval |
| probe | critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity; investigation |
| repast | food for one occassion of eating; meal |
| unwittingly | unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently; unknowingly |
| acquit | relieve from an accusation; pronounce not guilty; discharge perfoorm one's partt; conduct oneself |
| consign | give; transfer, or deliver, as if by signing over; hand over; commit |
| effrontery | shameless boldness; insolence; gal; temerity; nerve; chutzpah |
| nettlesome | irritating; causing annoyance or vexation |
| prodigious | extraordinary in amount or size; enormous; gigantic; huge; colossal |
| residual | remaining after a part is used or taken |
| salutary | favorable to health; healthful; curative beneficial; salubrious |
| supersede | force out of use; displace; supplant; replace |
| unwieldiness | bulkiness |
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